Pressures increase on Obama over Afghanistan

President Obama is under increasing pressure to decide whether the United States will commit more troops and resources to the conflict in Afghanistan.

On Tuesday, the head of NATO met with the president and endorsed Obama's plan to fine-tune the strategy for Afghanistan before deciding on whether to deploy more troops.

The meeting comes a day before Obama is scheduled to discuss Afghanistan strategy with his national security team.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs backed up Rasmussen's assessment.

"If the policy takes time to get right, then that's what the president intends to do," he said at the White House briefing Tuesday. "I think he owes that to the men and women in uniform that are there."

Gibbs said any decision will not be political, and that the president is "happy to hear the back and forth from both sides of this," but is going to take his time to "decide what is right for the American people."

I think that this is a huge controversie because as we can see the conflic with Afghanistan is not getting better and the number of trops killed is only getting higher.